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Posted 29 January 2010 - 21:11

I hope i didnt kill this thread, before i said anything it was quite good. You could do this in an effect coloumn or by various ingenius methods that are shinier than mine but how about Rewiring Renoise to Ableton, throwing an SF on the best piece of music you have ever written, followed by an automation device that sends the midi data across the road to Ableton's BPM counter.

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Track 1: funky drum loop (with a gain set to zero after the signal follower to mute it)
Track 2: A constant bass sample with a filter (usually lowpass, but experiment!) The signal follower controls the filter's cutoff

= instant funky bass synth line.

I also use Signal Follower -> Delay -> Signal Follower -> Delay -> Signal Follower to make some interesting effects by controlling multiple tracks or instruments but varying the rhythm. I'm still exploring. I love this new tool!

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Posted 23 February 2010 - 04:20

My favorite simple technique so far is:

Track 1: funky drum loop (with a gain set to zero after the signal follower to mute it)Track 2: A constant bass sample with a filter (usually lowpass, but experiment!) The signal follower controls the filter's cutoff

= instant funky bass synth line.

Wow, I just made simply silly test and instantly fell in love! DO TRY THIS AT HOME!

hay guises! action/reaction. I'm not into leaving or avoiding places, I ban 'em by making sure I get banned.. loadsa noise, little signal.. basically anything else makes more sense to spend energy on. thanks for the app, but from here on out we simply don't have any use for each other period. oh, and of course big shoutouts to bit-arts and kaneel and anyone else I forgot

Kick or lowpass filtered drums -> SF -> bass freq in EQ for subgroup instruments without drums. Love automate EQ by SF. The same with vocals. Vocal track to SF and SF controls vocal range frequency in subgroup by making some cut in EQ subgroup and little boost (or not) on vocals. Nice tip is use this with chorus on 2nd vocal track.

- trigger your vocals on two tracks, eg track 1 and track 2.
- in track one you load the signal follower, and kill the post volume.
- send the signal follower to the volume of track two.

and thats pretty much it.

you can use it to either make the vox pump a bit more, or to calm over enthusiastic parts.

also its programmable via commands of course, eg: want to calm a certain section a little more? use the volume commands on the section of the muted track. Just thought of this idea and havent tried it out but i think its doable.

i've also tried it on acoustic guitar, and it can spice up a performance.

Track 1: funky drum loop (with a gain set to zero after the signal follower to mute it)Track 2: A constant bass sample with a filter (usually lowpass, but experiment!) The signal follower controls the filter's cutoff

= instant funky bass synth line.

I also use Signal Follower -> Delay -> Signal Follower -> Delay -> Signal Follower to make some interesting effects by controlling multiple tracks or instruments but varying the rhythm. I'm still exploring. I love this new tool!

To keep my mixes clean I sometimes use the signal follower to simulate a kind of gated reverb. Just follow the original signal and trigger the dry/wet amount of your reverb with it. Full track amplitude = your max. wet amount. Dry/wet settings of course depend on your needs. Makes your instruments sound huge while playing without filling the whole mix with unwanted reverb tails afterwards.

Same works vice versa for delays. To prevent muddy freqs and too much chaos I sometimes use the signal follower to make a track suppress its own delay effect, triggering (supressing) the send amount with the original signal.

Great thread.. I bump it, just in case recent members of the forum haven't seen it. Sometimes with the features my brain goes like this too lol.. than I don't try them out, and then I don't figure out how easy they are.. lol.. so I just tried the signal follower this morning, because I was dying for some ducked arpeggio bassline stuff... the signal follower is the totally the way to do it.. and its so easy!!! Ah! Mysteries of Renoise...

I mainly use signal follower just like envelope follower in synths, or like in moog's mf-107. You can apply it to frequency in ring modulation or filter cutoff or pitch or lfo frequency etc. Anyway, it works best with guitar, stabs etc where amplitude often changes.

Automating the signal follower's controls can add another level of effect.

For instance, an lfo on the 'min' or 'max' can add 'randomness'. Sometimes it's fun/cool/useful to automate 'attack', 'release', or 'sensitivity'.

Having vocals open the Q on BR filters of other, competing instruments; for instance, if the vocals are 'strong' in the 500hz range, have those same vocals 'opening a q' on a BR filter set to 500hz on the guitar track.

Having the vocals tweak the other instruments' eq/filtering seems more subtle than simply 'riding' the volume of the competing track(s) (which is what i used to do with the follower, in order to clear sonic space for the vox).

While the 'ducking' or 'boosting' or 'pumping' aspects of the signal follower are very cool; one of my favorites has to be connecting the follower into a vsti's arp speed control.